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jim nodded. he could ask nothing more. in the coming days they did attack repeatedly firing down with russian machine guns and rpg's. the american soldiers and the tribesmen fought back showing incredible bravery. i will never forget the image of him standing straight up in the middle bravely shooting his ak-47 rifle at the positions in the high ground while beside him the two americans soldiers handled with machine guns. in one of the firefights he was wounded, shot in the leg. one of the men carried him on his back. i ran to call for a medic and she smiled ever proud. he loves to fight and he was on our side. in what was a race against time to secure them he began removing small groups of the tribal recruits up to the creative observation post on the high ground. there they could push the tablet and back. it worked. the attacks stopped. security for the tribe expanded. much later i learned that his strategy was even more successful than we knew. he was targeted by none other than the al qaeda leader. the navy seals that
jim nodded. he could ask nothing more. in the coming days they did attack repeatedly firing down with russian machine guns and rpg's. the american soldiers and the tribesmen fought back showing incredible bravery. i will never forget the image of him standing straight up in the middle bravely shooting his ak-47 rifle at the positions in the high ground while beside him the two americans soldiers handled with machine guns. in one of the firefights he was wounded, shot in the leg. one of the men...
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jim? >> well, i want to begin by thanking both the american enterprise institute and the brookings institution for establishing the commission and for putting together today's event. we've heard a lot of talk this morning about the founding fathers. i think it's fair to say that the combination of norm orstein and tom mann and john fortier there are part of this continuity government that is so important and i'm glad to be here and with my very distinguished copanelists. this is a very strong report that the commission has issued today. and i would really commend everyone who has a chance to read it, both in the room and if you have a hard copy or i think it's on the website or soon to be on the website -- it's a very easy read. it actually opens with a very stirring, dramatic narrative that to me reads kind of like a seasoned synopsis of the television show "24." i flew here from texas expecting to get a chance to meet kiefer sutherland who i assumed might be keynoting the event. but it i
jim? >> well, i want to begin by thanking both the american enterprise institute and the brookings institution for establishing the commission and for putting together today's event. we've heard a lot of talk this morning about the founding fathers. i think it's fair to say that the combination of norm orstein and tom mann and john fortier there are part of this continuity government that is so important and i'm glad to be here and with my very distinguished copanelists. this is a very...
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jim took a great risk. and again, it all boils down to something that we very much believed was worthwhile. >> so have you received background information, how much did that contribute to book and your overall experience as a war correspondent? >> a great deal. you mean information that wasn't on the record? >> yes. yes. >> you know, the great thing about this book is that there are only a very few people who are even mentioned whose names are not in the book. i had great cooperation from, you know, general petraeus and others in his chain of command who did grant me interviews about this topic. and the only people whose names aren't in there, you know, there's people whose jobs are too sensitive or, you know, in one case just for their, because of their career considerations. there's not much on background in this book. it's -- i really do name names. it's supposed to be very brutally candid. >> special forces people were there. >> with us? >> yes. >> well, that's a good question. there were about, i mean,
jim took a great risk. and again, it all boils down to something that we very much believed was worthwhile. >> so have you received background information, how much did that contribute to book and your overall experience as a war correspondent? >> a great deal. you mean information that wasn't on the record? >> yes. yes. >> you know, the great thing about this book is that there are only a very few people who are even mentioned whose names are not in the book. i had...
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congressman jim banks from indiana. congressman moulton has been in 2014, a marine veteran. also focus on defense in the past, serves on the budget, seapower and strategic forces. in the 2017, indiana's third district, from the labor committees. he is a major reserve list, continues to serve even today. thank you for being with us today. >> honor to be here. >> i was afraid to mess that up. the task force, a year-long study, what the united states is going forward, a strategic environment, a rise in china, that is a potential opportunity to improve the ability to protect us interests going forward. we both found a great job of capturing the strategic environment and opportunities available to us as a recommendation we thought did a great job addressing new concepts and new technologies and how the defense department. what do you find are the most important finds you want people to take away? >> in many ways the findings are not entirely revolutionary. china represent the greatest national security challenge, and the need to invest new technologies like biotech, other things,
congressman jim banks from indiana. congressman moulton has been in 2014, a marine veteran. also focus on defense in the past, serves on the budget, seapower and strategic forces. in the 2017, indiana's third district, from the labor committees. he is a major reserve list, continues to serve even today. thank you for being with us today. >> honor to be here. >> i was afraid to mess that up. the task force, a year-long study, what the united states is going forward, a strategic...
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. >> my first guess of the monies representative jim hines democrat for i think you for giving us your time to think for having me. >> was a be revealed as far as a result selling a government funding crisis. >> i think was on track to get something done by december 17th, head i hope that it is we committed lease with the leadership is committed to do witches get a bill done before little bit of wavering from kevin mccarthy that said wait until republicans take control and is not yet the majority so my hope is that we have this done and is always a good idea to get the budget bills done rather than to move to a continuing resolution and that means that all these news projects at the pentagon or wherever else to get started and i hope we get it done. >> as far as the call, what would you like to see come out of it in the final product. >> and it will include 12 different bills i some of the intelligence committee in one of the projects which is really important that i'm working onkis helping by the pentagon but the intelligence community by innovative seven what i mean is particular the
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that said, the threat is, i think, more real than jim contends in his book. the threat of the islamic state in particular, so al qaeda 1.0 was bin laden's organization, headquartered in initially afghanistan, the attack of september 11th. and later in pakistan, and it attacked the united states in an attempt to create -- to get the united states to overreact and embroil the united states in a long war against radical islamic extremism. ultimately leading the united states to disengage from the world, stop supporting what al qaeda saw as oppressive puppets across the islamic world. alieed with the united states, probably most notably egypt mubarak's egypt and other countries in the lahm islamic world as well. he almost succeeded. so the attacks in response to the attacks of september 11th the bush administration correctly turned to afghanistan asked them to hand over those upon for those nefarious acts. the afghan government refused to do so and the united states had no choice but to attack the government to topple it and attempt to bring bin laden and al qaed
that said, the threat is, i think, more real than jim contends in his book. the threat of the islamic state in particular, so al qaeda 1.0 was bin laden's organization, headquartered in initially afghanistan, the attack of september 11th. and later in pakistan, and it attacked the united states in an attempt to create -- to get the united states to overreact and embroil the united states in a long war against radical islamic extremism. ultimately leading the united states to disengage from the...
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i think jim has thought about that also over the years and commissioned various capacities, jim, including in 2020, an idea that came up in the independent panel. i want to ask, we have several questions and then i'm going to return back to kind of the talent, the first is from our colleague david special and service's council. you've never seen as joint set of service team but do you also think it's true for budgets and programs, for requirements and space between today writing this and tomorrow research and development. >> well, as always, a very insightful question from my wonderful colleague dave who we have worked with over the years and great associations. i think we've got to count as the people, these are honorable people, these are highly experienced people and -- and they are going to have to rise to the occasion. we've never faced the threat like -- i think the threat from china because it's multidimensional, again, it's economic, it's technological, it's not just militarily and it's diplomatic. we've not faced that before. the leaders in our military are going to have to get ov
i think jim has thought about that also over the years and commissioned various capacities, jim, including in 2020, an idea that came up in the independent panel. i want to ask, we have several questions and then i'm going to return back to kind of the talent, the first is from our colleague david special and service's council. you've never seen as joint set of service team but do you also think it's true for budgets and programs, for requirements and space between today writing this and...
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again, jim, correct me if i got this from him but i think we got it right. the hunt for black box was pretty important right off the bat because women were, nobody knew what the heck and gone on with his airplane. they did know who the hijackers were, and those black boxes could have told them a lot about that, especially the cockpit voice recorder. so for about three days there's a pretty intense hunt for the black boxes. and a member there's mounds of wreckage as high as they can get inside the building. a whole airplane and the contents of 800,000 square feet of office space just plowed in crazy ways. and find i think was on september 14 very early in the morning they were looking at in one area where certain parts of the airplane have a chelated, and i believe jan pulled something out that she was so charged she thought this could only be a piece of garbage or some kind of wreckage that we don't really need and she was walking over to a trash bin when fbi agents that hold on a minute, let me take a look at the. that turned out to be one of the black boxe
again, jim, correct me if i got this from him but i think we got it right. the hunt for black box was pretty important right off the bat because women were, nobody knew what the heck and gone on with his airplane. they did know who the hijackers were, and those black boxes could have told them a lot about that, especially the cockpit voice recorder. so for about three days there's a pretty intense hunt for the black boxes. and a member there's mounds of wreckage as high as they can get inside...
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jim justice was a republican, just turned democrat to run for governor but jim has been a republican democrat, jim is one of those guys that crosses over. a great person, created a lot of jobs. and he'll be a job creator. he thinks outside the box. so that would be good. the democratic voters need to be looking more to candidates -- president obama brought in a climate agenda that we differ with, and it's not because we don't want to -- we want clean climate. we want clean air and clean water and all that. but there's a balance between environment and economy and only thing i've said, if it's not obtainable, it's not reasonable. he put some things in play here we don't have technology in place. the federal government wants to invest and find the technology that does a certain thing and you decide you're not growing to do it because it costs too much? i'm sorry. you're out of business. if the technology has not been developed and you're doing the best we shouldn't push you out because we don't like what you're doing. and that is what is happening so when a coal miner and family loses
jim justice was a republican, just turned democrat to run for governor but jim has been a republican democrat, jim is one of those guys that crosses over. a great person, created a lot of jobs. and he'll be a job creator. he thinks outside the box. so that would be good. the democratic voters need to be looking more to candidates -- president obama brought in a climate agenda that we differ with, and it's not because we don't want to -- we want clean climate. we want clean air and clean water...
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what do you think jim were some of your surprises? >> as seth said the race to ai is a race we are losing and to win on that front is one of the first recommendations in a report is to require every defense at least one ai or autonomous alternative prior to funding. it might be the most significant recommendation and the entire report and the reason we focus on acquisitions processes because it's the only place in the structure of our national security apparatus where we can actually force this revolution to to occur coming from our and that the government in congress to force a new mindset and an acquisitions process keeping in mind we are at a provided a number of authorizations for the pentagon to do this. they were largely ignored and we need to force the acquisitions process to spread. as far as other technology silicon valley was exposed to new innovations and cloud computing which gives us an incredible ability to speed up advancing ourselves within the ai arena as well so that's an area where we can do a better job at leveragi
what do you think jim were some of your surprises? >> as seth said the race to ai is a race we are losing and to win on that front is one of the first recommendations in a report is to require every defense at least one ai or autonomous alternative prior to funding. it might be the most significant recommendation and the entire report and the reason we focus on acquisitions processes because it's the only place in the structure of our national security apparatus where we can actually...
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jim mentioned the bmdr. this is just a general view. it will be taking place with nsm as well as an ekv. but this is the historical emphasis between homeland and regional really going back to 1999.those fluctuated a lot. there was a big surge especially for the capital investments for the deployment back in 2002. and -- but it's not just the gmd it's kind of the overall emphasis. and in a historical perspective this is i think senator sullivan mentioned this is all relative modesty in terms of the number of interceptors we are talking about. if you look on the far right that is 2017.that will be in the ground by the end of this year. compare that for instance to the clinton administration. three phases of the clinton administration. 100 to 250. before that the g pals whose job it was to go after limited threat of 10 to 100 rvs. and after that, the sdi phase 1 safeguard an sentinel and that sort of thing. but in the overall context, i think you see that modesty. sorry i keep looking for the keyboard down here. the other context here is a
jim mentioned the bmdr. this is just a general view. it will be taking place with nsm as well as an ekv. but this is the historical emphasis between homeland and regional really going back to 1999.those fluctuated a lot. there was a big surge especially for the capital investments for the deployment back in 2002. and -- but it's not just the gmd it's kind of the overall emphasis. and in a historical perspective this is i think senator sullivan mentioned this is all relative modesty in terms of...
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jim and i will be working together on cyber legislation there. but and then the other key thing, the task force has members on it from each of the nine committees that have significant jurisdiction. and so you get a variety of inputs as you're looking at that bigger picture, and he felt that we needed to do that first. >> host: congressman thornberry, the u.s. chamber of commerce has expressed concerns about hamper being business with regard to the plan, there's also been concerns expressed about privacy issues. where do you stand on both those fronts? >> guest: i think both are very legitimate concerns. if we take action through the government that makes our business less competitive, we will not have been doing the economy or the country any favors. and at the same time if government takes action that significantly effects our individual privacy rights in the name of cybersecurity, then we also will have changed the essential fabric of our freedoms. and so it's a little bit like some of the screening mechanisms that we've gone through in the la
jim and i will be working together on cyber legislation there. but and then the other key thing, the task force has members on it from each of the nine committees that have significant jurisdiction. and so you get a variety of inputs as you're looking at that bigger picture, and he felt that we needed to do that first. >> host: congressman thornberry, the u.s. chamber of commerce has expressed concerns about hamper being business with regard to the plan, there's also been concerns...
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jim, let me start with you. is that one of the solutions here, do we brought in the next national defense strategy commission to ask them to take on the bureaucracy, all the ticking time bombs in the book. is that too much? i mean, putting aside the congressional angle that we talked about . that's a broader us government wide approach. to better reform the defense department, is the commission the answer, what would you do if you working for a day ? >> first let me stick up for the congress a little bit and i understand why general nro just said what congress won't let people do . and i get it and there are instances where they needed to summon up and in fact to some of the political will to do things. it's a hard thing when because the force is so small we got people going back five, six, seven times in tours of duty to then go home and explain to them that you voted to cutthe commissary city a littlebit . it's a hard thing . and i think this answers your question . i think if the bipartisan leadership of the
jim, let me start with you. is that one of the solutions here, do we brought in the next national defense strategy commission to ask them to take on the bureaucracy, all the ticking time bombs in the book. is that too much? i mean, putting aside the congressional angle that we talked about . that's a broader us government wide approach. to better reform the defense department, is the commission the answer, what would you do if you working for a day ? >> first let me stick up for the...
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thornberry is the chair of the house republicans cybersecurity task force and democratic representatives jim langevin is co-founder of the house cybersecurity caucus. >> host: this is c-span's "communicators" program. we are continuing our series on cybersecurity and cyberthreats to the united states this week. the congressional response to cybersecurity. joining us is representative mac thornberry, who serves as chair of the house republicans task force on cybersecurity. congressman thornberry thank you for being here. jennifer martinez the politico is our guest reporter. congressman, what in your view are the cybersecurity needs of the u.s. to defend against and to you think that the white house plan introduced in may addresses those needs? >> guest: well, the country faces a wide spectrum of threats in cyberspace, all the way from vandalism and petty crime to more serious crime, theft of intellectual property to things that people are calling cyberwarfare and so it is a wide spectrum of threats. i think the fundamental issue is that our laws and policies have not kept up with the changes
thornberry is the chair of the house republicans cybersecurity task force and democratic representatives jim langevin is co-founder of the house cybersecurity caucus. >> host: this is c-span's "communicators" program. we are continuing our series on cybersecurity and cyberthreats to the united states this week. the congressional response to cybersecurity. joining us is representative mac thornberry, who serves as chair of the house republicans task force on cybersecurity....
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loma city and uss arizona and somebody with the national park service we stand a very proud along with jim and the pentagon memorial and amy and allison all of her colleagues in new york and certainly as a law enforcement officer for the national park servicel at 29 years before i came into the superintendent six years ago it had lost a dear friend in the line of duty state troopers and law enforcement rangers who were on that as mentioned in nothing but the utmost respect for what pat and his team do and police work means so much to me and so many and once again it is an honor to be part of this panel. >> thank you i think for a lot of folks who are listening and the folks onhe the panel you are saying this is personal,ay professional and an individual lives and also in the larger view you are taking to your work, thank you for being able to walk both sides of that. >> thank you everybody and thank you for allowing me too participate in this. i lost my brother dave and the pentagonda denied 11. that is essentially how i got involved with the creation of the pentagon world and the memorial
loma city and uss arizona and somebody with the national park service we stand a very proud along with jim and the pentagon memorial and amy and allison all of her colleagues in new york and certainly as a law enforcement officer for the national park servicel at 29 years before i came into the superintendent six years ago it had lost a dear friend in the line of duty state troopers and law enforcement rangers who were on that as mentioned in nothing but the utmost respect for what pat and his...
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jim. >> thank you for allowing me to participate in thank you everyone and i lost my brother dave, at the pentagon on 911, that is essentially how i got involved with the creation of the pentagon memorial. and the fund which is a nonprofit that i now serve as executive director of been very similar to the new york memorial, we worked very closely with the design competition were very closely with partners of defense because the family members all felt the memorial needed to be there on the ground on the pentagon this was a little bit of a different situation that we were closely with the pentagon and the design competition and it started shortly the planning it started shortly after the attack. that was probably a month where the families come together and asked me members. there is an international design competition, the new york museum and basically they had designs or ideas and posters that were held in the national building museum in washington dc and you can imagine it going through room after room of these designs. there were 2000 designs that were submitted it 56 different cou
jim. >> thank you for allowing me to participate in thank you everyone and i lost my brother dave, at the pentagon on 911, that is essentially how i got involved with the creation of the pentagon memorial. and the fund which is a nonprofit that i now serve as executive director of been very similar to the new york memorial, we worked very closely with the design competition were very closely with partners of defense because the family members all felt the memorial needed to be there on...
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congressman jim thanks and great leaders on capitol hill. thank you very much for the invitation to be here today. and 20 years has been a very very long time engaging in the global war on terror. there are a number of positive aspects that we have seen. and negative as well. at first will start with the positive, of course as we have gone through the last several decades, we really have seen advances in technology and certainly and in modern warfare but also in a more global aspect, working with our partners we really developed strong allies for the last 20 years. ... ... always using our allied partners to further our goal around the globe. that is a bit cautionary, there's a work that will go on for a long time and a number of different ways so once again, thank you for the invitation to be here. >> with some of the other ones want to respond by requesting on 20 years after 9/11 and what are lessons are? >> i'll just jump in and say first of all, what an honor it is to be here, sometimes it feels like veterans are last in line congress an
congressman jim thanks and great leaders on capitol hill. thank you very much for the invitation to be here today. and 20 years has been a very very long time engaging in the global war on terror. there are a number of positive aspects that we have seen. and negative as well. at first will start with the positive, of course as we have gone through the last several decades, we really have seen advances in technology and certainly and in modern warfare but also in a more global aspect, working...
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and then thirdly, jim popkin. these days, a media consultant and any of you consider ing writing a book and having somebody handle it, you might ask yourself, how was it that you managed to get this book to come out just as she was coming out of prison, which i think is a pretty good trick. but i want to ask, first of all, what were you doing? an animal, cortez's apartment. i don't know if my friend john is here. there he is. john is my roommate and very close friend. and john used to own apartment. so as young man in washington spent a lot of time in john's condo. and after 911, as pete, i was aware of the story. we really couldn't cover it. and reached out to me and informed me that ana montes had bought his condo. and it's kind of stayed in my head. and it is always kind of given me a personal connection to this story. so let's talking about ana montes. what did she do for the united states government and how good was she at doing it? ana was an analyst for the dia, the defense intelligence, which is kind of th
and then thirdly, jim popkin. these days, a media consultant and any of you consider ing writing a book and having somebody handle it, you might ask yourself, how was it that you managed to get this book to come out just as she was coming out of prison, which i think is a pretty good trick. but i want to ask, first of all, what were you doing? an animal, cortez's apartment. i don't know if my friend john is here. there he is. john is my roommate and very close friend. and john used to own...
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to channel jim risen here. he is not present. here. he is not present. i think the answer he provides in his book, pay any price, is yes it is endless. it's one thing to say that there were certain suspensions of rights in world war ii or world war i which lasted for years. this has lasted 13 years. all the points you made indicate how endless it is. this has lasted 22 years for the united states. they are the same people that bombed u.s. trade center in center in 1993. that was over 20 years ago and there's no indication that we are winning it. this will be 100 year war. this is a multi generational war we are fighting. we are fortunate that it has had so little impact on the vast majority of the american people. this has been fought by people. this has been fought by all volunteers and i applaud that fact and i can't say enough good things about this generation of american sons and daughters, who came of age in the great depression but the greatest generation, two thirds of them were draftees. this generation
to channel jim risen here. he is not present. here. he is not present. i think the answer he provides in his book, pay any price, is yes it is endless. it's one thing to say that there were certain suspensions of rights in world war ii or world war i which lasted for years. this has lasted 13 years. all the points you made indicate how endless it is. this has lasted 22 years for the united states. they are the same people that bombed u.s. trade center in center in 1993. that was over 20 years...
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it's full of jim today. it makes no sense to send another went there. independent voice that is grown by the values and beliefs of southern minnesota. that's why am. informed by my beliefs in service and a need for a voice in washington. >> i had to say i'm a product of the district who has been working for five years, i were the badge of honor in 21 counties. i think i reflect the views and values of people in southern minnesota, i humbly ask for their vote. i look forward to the next few weeks in the campaign with you. >> thank you very much. both candidates. thanks to everybody who sent in questions today, election day is coming up, november 6. be sure to get out and vote. i hope this helped you make up
it's full of jim today. it makes no sense to send another went there. independent voice that is grown by the values and beliefs of southern minnesota. that's why am. informed by my beliefs in service and a need for a voice in washington. >> i had to say i'm a product of the district who has been working for five years, i were the badge of honor in 21 counties. i think i reflect the views and values of people in southern minnesota, i humbly ask for their vote. i look forward to the next...
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secretary, general or jim. thank you. [applause] up next on booktv we will hear from former defense secretary ash carter who writes about his experience working at the pentagon in the book inside the five sided box.
secretary, general or jim. thank you. [applause] up next on booktv we will hear from former defense secretary ash carter who writes about his experience working at the pentagon in the book inside the five sided box.
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. >> jim hagedorn let's talk about those tariffs. hagedorn: i'm happy to get into that but you are not an independent voice you are a political appointee of barack obama sent out here by the resistance of policy and company to take power in the district with a very left-wing viewpoint and as far as working with the president did you support him on the tax cuts? no. what do you support him on? i don't think there is much in almost every democrat voted against the farm bill. they don't like work for welfare. you are very leftist you will work with pelosi and against the president every step of the way. feehan: this is the tone of his campaign his fourth run so this idea of us in them and that is not what i'm about to talk about independent leadership looking at the pentagon online 11 if you want to take a look to jump into a middle school classroom to make sure kids can learn with the idea that i said to myself it is time to serve the country again no one told me to do anything. that's what independent leadership is. and critical think
. >> jim hagedorn let's talk about those tariffs. hagedorn: i'm happy to get into that but you are not an independent voice you are a political appointee of barack obama sent out here by the resistance of policy and company to take power in the district with a very left-wing viewpoint and as far as working with the president did you support him on the tax cuts? no. what do you support him on? i don't think there is much in almost every democrat voted against the farm bill. they don't like...
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some of this will overlap little bit with jim's comments. on the statutory authority, may be appropriate that a group of 12 have apostolic powers. i was thinking we should rename it the washington apostolic committee. the authorization granted in this particular piece of legislation as already discussed is broad, it is unique and unprecedented. if the joint committee as jim indicated, if they report a bill -- i will call it the select committee. if the select committee reports a bill by november 23rd, it gets the expedited considerations. in the senate there is no rule 22. that means there is no notion to filibuster the motion to proceed to consider it. there are no points of order. all the points of order are waived. in the senate there are 30 hours of debate even under the old budget resolutions. we have at least 50 hours of debate and under reconciliation we had 20 hours but under both of those as many in this room will recall that is not the end of the. we have the traditional vote that could go on endlessly even after the time had expir
some of this will overlap little bit with jim's comments. on the statutory authority, may be appropriate that a group of 12 have apostolic powers. i was thinking we should rename it the washington apostolic committee. the authorization granted in this particular piece of legislation as already discussed is broad, it is unique and unprecedented. if the joint committee as jim indicated, if they report a bill -- i will call it the select committee. if the select committee reports a bill by...
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in the future your friends will say it's jim, stupid. you see them every year at the national book festival. here's his complete biography even if he speaks chinese to you. let's say afterwards you are shooting the ball at a cocktail party, a to party with important people there but you don't know who they are. in the future you will know exactly who to up to at any cocktail party. so these contact lenses will change everything. who were the first people to buy into the contact lenses? college students taking final examinations. they will blink and see all the answers to the final exam or contact lens. and who is the next person to buy internet contact lenses? president barack obama said he doesn't have to have these teleprompters in front of him giving his speech. and the third person to buy internet contact lenses, vice president joe biden so that he's always on message as they say. so you see that the potential of this technology is like living in the matrix. when you walk into a room you will see identification of all the objects. if
in the future your friends will say it's jim, stupid. you see them every year at the national book festival. here's his complete biography even if he speaks chinese to you. let's say afterwards you are shooting the ball at a cocktail party, a to party with important people there but you don't know who they are. in the future you will know exactly who to up to at any cocktail party. so these contact lenses will change everything. who were the first people to buy into the contact lenses? college...
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also tell them to stop saying jim crow but when they mention jim crow i asked people in the gym what does that mean? they say is that a bird or something? it is segregation. >> that is ann amazing point. i have no trouble dumbing it down. it comes naturally to me. one of the things are so effective is he spoke like the folks. if you are smart you do not have to try to sound smart. if you are actually intelligent you do not have toik prove how intelligent you are by using a very big words, right? you just want to communicate simply, powerfully and effectively and get right to the point. i will no longer say fossil fuels. [laughter] jesse, way, way back here in the room at the back were going to take our last question. they will get into this book citing. went to reiterate we cannot take photos into personal sessions at this book signing. got to be very, very quickly the fastest book signing with quevery dumper just like this is the largest crowd ever had. sort last question, click site jesse minimus chris have a question i have my calling arizona for biden on the last election of 2020
also tell them to stop saying jim crow but when they mention jim crow i asked people in the gym what does that mean? they say is that a bird or something? it is segregation. >> that is ann amazing point. i have no trouble dumbing it down. it comes naturally to me. one of the things are so effective is he spoke like the folks. if you are smart you do not have to try to sound smart. if you are actually intelligent you do not have toik prove how intelligent you are by using a very big words,...
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>> i am going to join seth and jim and say innovate, innovate, innovate. it's very important in developing those relationships with not just our major hardware providers, you have a lot of industries out there providing products and services to the department of defense for many years but we have many smaller scale providers we should be including in various competition making sure they have opportunity to compete for those contracts with the department of defense. i do think it is very important, some of these companies you will find in silicon valley in california, you might even find them here in the midwest and iowa. they need the availability, they need to know how to navigate our system of acquisitions at the department of defense and be allowed to participate. i think that's very important but we have to recognize while we are investing hypersonic and artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities, i always go back soft truths. social operation forces and number one, humans are more important than hardware so while we continue to invest in new innovati
>> i am going to join seth and jim and say innovate, innovate, innovate. it's very important in developing those relationships with not just our major hardware providers, you have a lot of industries out there providing products and services to the department of defense for many years but we have many smaller scale providers we should be including in various competition making sure they have opportunity to compete for those contracts with the department of defense. i do think it is very...
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for nearly two decades now, she has been on a crusade to keep jim's memory alive and well. she helps raise funds for newtons very own 9/11 memorial. she speaks to local students educating them about the events of that day. 18 years ago. and she has given her testimony all over iowa. and for folks in iowa, they probably have seen driving across the state. she has a pretty special license plate which reads nvr4gt. never forget. today and every day iowans are keeping that sacred promise. we will always remember jim clery and the nearly 3000 others lost their lives that tragic day. we will always honor the heroes who selflessly sacrificed and saved countless lives. we will always rise up to defend our nation and citizens. we will never forget. that is our sacred promise. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. >> mr. president? >> center for montana. >> mr. president, 18 years ago today, americans witnessed what evil looks like. 18 years ago today americans witnessed the loss of innocent life. 18 years ago today, americans witnessed acts of cowardice. today, montanans and
for nearly two decades now, she has been on a crusade to keep jim's memory alive and well. she helps raise funds for newtons very own 9/11 memorial. she speaks to local students educating them about the events of that day. 18 years ago. and she has given her testimony all over iowa. and for folks in iowa, they probably have seen driving across the state. she has a pretty special license plate which reads nvr4gt. never forget. today and every day iowans are keeping that sacred promise. we will...
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jim is in new jersey. jim, goo ahead. >> thank you for taking my phone call.my i distantly remember what happened that day. i would like to say on that day, i was called in to substitute for a teacher in new jersey in the high school for english and on my way to school, the first tower was hit. i was in for two periods. i was coming back from school, i believe it was the first one that went down which was the second one that was hit. when i heard it way off in the distance, 25 miles away from new york, i heard from a distance, this war and that was the first one that went down. >> like in north carolina. good morning. >> good morning. i am in north carolina now. what is said about today is not only what happened and we remember, that is to be expected. okay? we commemorate things like this in this country and people around the world but what is terribly sad to me is the phrase we associate with this event and not only this event but with the holocaust and so on. never forget. well, i'm looking around the l
jim is in new jersey. jim, goo ahead. >> thank you for taking my phone call.my i distantly remember what happened that day. i would like to say on that day, i was called in to substitute for a teacher in new jersey in the high school for english and on my way to school, the first tower was hit. i was in for two periods. i was coming back from school, i believe it was the first one that went down which was the second one that was hit. when i heard it way off in the distance, 25 miles away...
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innocent and what became the interinnocent suggested to andy -- internet and suggested to andy and jim schlesinger that they needed to measure and track where we stood in various areas of military competition relative to the soviets. now, actually nixon's blue ribbon defense panel suggested as one of its recommendations that they establish that kind of a capability in the defense department. andy didn't have anything to do with that and he was working on intelligence issues for the president and for henry kissinger. and so it wasn't until they reorganized the intelligence community at the end of 1971 that a net assessment capability was recreated, established on the nsc. within a couple of years that was then transferred to the pentagon when jim schlesinger became secretary of defense. schlesinger and marshall were very close going back to the early '60s as both colleagues and friends. they both had worried about things like where the united states stood relative to the soviet union and whether we were tracking that so we could make more informative and useful strategic decisions. and
innocent and what became the interinnocent suggested to andy -- internet and suggested to andy and jim schlesinger that they needed to measure and track where we stood in various areas of military competition relative to the soviets. now, actually nixon's blue ribbon defense panel suggested as one of its recommendations that they establish that kind of a capability in the defense department. andy didn't have anything to do with that and he was working on intelligence issues for the president...
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i'm interested in jim's answer. >> i agree. this goes back to what we were talking about earlier which is the degree to which u.s. actions in the war on terror have had an effect a negative effect, and an unintended consequence this is just one of many. i think it's part and parcel of the decision to invade iraq and to do -- to continue this very tactical approach to the war on terror. i you think that you can kill your way out of the war on terror or then you're not really understanding what is going on in front of you. you have to -- we have to be smarter about how we intervene in this whole region. this is just one of those issues that goes to the heart of it. it's what bothers me is that politically inside the united states there's like no political incentive now for anybody, either the president or the congress or anyone else, to step back and say wait a second i think the war on terror is not being conducted in the right way because the only political cost today to any politician is -- is there -- was there an attack insi
i'm interested in jim's answer. >> i agree. this goes back to what we were talking about earlier which is the degree to which u.s. actions in the war on terror have had an effect a negative effect, and an unintended consequence this is just one of many. i think it's part and parcel of the decision to invade iraq and to do -- to continue this very tactical approach to the war on terror. i you think that you can kill your way out of the war on terror or then you're not really understanding...
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well, one more call-in segment on booktv on c-span2 coming up, and that's with jim lehrer. recently, mr. lehrer sat down for our "after words" program with gloria of cnn to talk about "tension city." here's a little bit of video, then we'll be back live with mr. lehrer. >> guest: presidential debates have become the only time with with -- where the candidates, usually two, sometimes three, are on the same stage at the same time talking about the same things. and they come usually in october with the election pretty close, maybe a month or only a month or less away. the polls show that in up in probably 90% or more of the people have already made a decision as to who, for whom they're going to vote. but for whom they're going to vote decision, some of them are leaning, some of them are not, and mostly what they want to do, the issues are pretty much on the table, and people have decided whether they're in favor of lock boxes for social security or debt ceiling -- >> host: al gore. [laughter] >> guest: right, whatever. all those decisions have been made by the voters. what st
well, one more call-in segment on booktv on c-span2 coming up, and that's with jim lehrer. recently, mr. lehrer sat down for our "after words" program with gloria of cnn to talk about "tension city." here's a little bit of video, then we'll be back live with mr. lehrer. >> guest: presidential debates have become the only time with with -- where the candidates, usually two, sometimes three, are on the same stage at the same time talking about the same things. and they...
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on afterwards and he's interviewed by democratic congressman jim hunt and watch book tv every sunday on cspan2 and find a full schedule on the guide and watch any time online. >> oncothe cover of mark's book it said he'll take the "inside youtube's chaotic rise of world domination". he reported on google for the past seven years. youtube was bought by google in 2014 for $1.6 billion. in the prologue, he reports that more than 2 billion people visit youtube every month making it the second most visited search engine on earth. google is first. bloomburg reported that youtube is still dominated by music, gaming, and kids video. >> mark bergen on this episode of book notes+. book notes+ is available on the cspan now appr wherever you get your podcasts. ... at least one. it could be mine, it could be baptista. you as the reader, you now know personally know an anagram. you might already know them but they don't talk about it and now here's one that is sharing this journey with you and now hopefully, you have more empathy >> javier samora on q&a, you can listen to all our progress on our f
on afterwards and he's interviewed by democratic congressman jim hunt and watch book tv every sunday on cspan2 and find a full schedule on the guide and watch any time online. >> oncothe cover of mark's book it said he'll take the "inside youtube's chaotic rise of world domination". he reported on google for the past seven years. youtube was bought by google in 2014 for $1.6 billion. in the prologue, he reports that more than 2 billion people visit youtube every month making it...
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. >> jim. >> the russians have occupied a lot of area in ukraine. do you know if the ukrainians, is in any assessmentif they've gone into, like, a guerrilla war many these occupied areas in and a separate question, i imagine the russians have to have captured ukrainian service members. are theyy treating those service members as captured p.o.w.s with geneva convention protections? >> i don't have any information about captured soldiers on either side. i really don't. and i certainly couldn't get into, into how they're being treated. i i mean, obviously, we're not involved in this war, but our expectation would be that both parties would abide by geneva convention requirements and to treat any soldiers that are captured humanely and in a accordance with the rule of law. that would be the united states' expectation as well as so many other nations. but i don't have any information s about a what that looks like n terms of numbers and what that treatment actually is. and on your question about guerrilla tactics, jim, i -- again, i'd let the ukrainians
. >> jim. >> the russians have occupied a lot of area in ukraine. do you know if the ukrainians, is in any assessmentif they've gone into, like, a guerrilla war many these occupied areas in and a separate question, i imagine the russians have to have captured ukrainian service members. are theyy treating those service members as captured p.o.w.s with geneva convention protections? >> i don't have any information about captured soldiers on either side. i really don't. and i...
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jim mccartney covered that speech. in his story, at the the time, he was working for the chicago daily news but he was based in washington. it explained in detail what eisenhower was talking about. for example, our 25 billion-dollar tug-of-war, that's the kind of money that was involved then, today it would be much bigger numbers. there were five parts to the series he wrote. again you can see the pressure is on as the contractor's work for the approval of the weapons they want to build. it went on to talk about how lawmakers, the military rivalries that are involved and how these defense pressures really come down to a one-way road. so, what we know from eisenhower 's there are two elements to this. those stories by the way that i've just shown you led to jim winning a scholarship to study at harvard university for a year and dig deeper into this issue. it also led him to ultimately decide that america has an addiction to war. his passion to the tell the story grew out of his own story. is anybody in here 18 years old
jim mccartney covered that speech. in his story, at the the time, he was working for the chicago daily news but he was based in washington. it explained in detail what eisenhower was talking about. for example, our 25 billion-dollar tug-of-war, that's the kind of money that was involved then, today it would be much bigger numbers. there were five parts to the series he wrote. again you can see the pressure is on as the contractor's work for the approval of the weapons they want to build. it...
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in 2016 when democrats basically say the fbi was the antichrist and jim comey was antichrist and when the six months they were hailing bob mueller former director of the fbi as the second coming and so on and so forth. when we get into this environment we have these very, very heated political dynamics going on it's difficult for people to maintain any kind of political -- >> thank you all for being here. a special welcome to the folks joining us on c-span. we're looking forward to a spirited debate in our panel following opening remarks from secretary wilbur ross. i am pleased and privileged to introduce the 39th secretary of commerce wilbur ross
in 2016 when democrats basically say the fbi was the antichrist and jim comey was antichrist and when the six months they were hailing bob mueller former director of the fbi as the second coming and so on and so forth. when we get into this environment we have these very, very heated political dynamics going on it's difficult for people to maintain any kind of political -- >> thank you all for being here. a special welcome to the folks joining us on c-span. we're looking forward to a...
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where i stand on it, if the end result was for jim to come back to oklahoma, i would like to think there's a win/win solution, that the town, jim thorpe which has done so well by him, could keep the name, obviously, and be the good guys in this and bring the remains back to oklahoma. whether that'll happen or not, i don't know. >> host: were you able to talk with a lot of mr. thorpe's descendants? >> guest: yes. >> host: for this book? >> guest: yes. all his children. >> host: what are they doing? >> guest: well, there's only two left. they're quite old or aged by this point. jack, who just died a couple of weeks ago, was the one who most reclaimed his indian identity. he lives in shawnee. bill worked as an engineer for many years as he's retired now. dick worked for the government of oklahoma. he lives there now which is almost to the texas border. grace thorpe, oneover the daughters, was -- one of the daughters, was a passionate indian rights advocate and just indefatigable all her life. gayle, the other daughter, worked for the american girl scouts and was also quite an advocate for ind
where i stand on it, if the end result was for jim to come back to oklahoma, i would like to think there's a win/win solution, that the town, jim thorpe which has done so well by him, could keep the name, obviously, and be the good guys in this and bring the remains back to oklahoma. whether that'll happen or not, i don't know. >> host: were you able to talk with a lot of mr. thorpe's descendants? >> guest: yes. >> host: for this book? >> guest: yes. all his children....
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go ahead, jim. >> caller: thank you for taking my question. i guess that the general state it is quandary in terms of what we are looking at. how do we disengage from a blatantly hostile islamic culture that seems to be intent on murdering as many innocent people as possible, cares nothing about human rights and dispatches terrorists all over the world to murder innocent people? but in this type of culture clash, clashes i use, i'm a retired coast guard myself, exmilitary. i don't understand how we can disengage when we are dealing with a bunch of people who want to murder us. .. u.s. forces makes the problem worse, further more, i would argue strongly that those countries for which isis does pose an exosensual threat, iraq, iran, saudi arabia, arguably turkey, arguably, jipght. they need to own this problem and were they to do so and take ownership, were they to set aside their differences on other matters, and to collaborate dpens the threat posed by isis, i believe they could handle that threat. let's think about isis probably what -- 25, 3
go ahead, jim. >> caller: thank you for taking my question. i guess that the general state it is quandary in terms of what we are looking at. how do we disengage from a blatantly hostile islamic culture that seems to be intent on murdering as many innocent people as possible, cares nothing about human rights and dispatches terrorists all over the world to murder innocent people? but in this type of culture clash, clashes i use, i'm a retired coast guard myself, exmilitary. i don't...
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search jim bridenstein. the u.s. state considering the nomination of peter feldman to serve on the consumer product safety commission, a confirmation vote scheduled for 2:15 eastern time. also today we're expecting senators to talk about the brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination. you're watching live coverage on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. today's opening prayer will be offered by pastor sam steele of chapel by the sea from south padre island, texas. the guest chaplain: good morning. christ jesus sent people out two by two. let us pray. eternal god, as our senators gather, two from each state, break down barriers that divide, create an environment of honest dialogue, and bring about positive compromise so that there is unity in our diversity and so our nation is steadfast in the foundation of the people, by the people, and for the people. loving god, we lift up to you our brothers and sisters touched by the weather across our land. may we reach out our hands of love and help. com
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. >> here's the cover of the book america's war for the greater middle east as we listen to jim in erie pennsylvania. >> thank you for taking my question.. he stayed the quandary in terms of what we are looking at. how do we disengage from the openly hostile islamic culture that seems to be intent on murdering as many people as possible and cares nothing about human rights and inspires terrorists all over the world to murder innocent people and if disengagement sounds nice in this type of culture clash i am a retired coast guard guy myself and i don't understand how we can sit here and say we need toe disengage -- >> we got the point. let's hear from andrew. >> if we saw evidence that military engagement that the presence of u.s. versus in the region and us bombing and engaging them if that made the situation better than i would say let us continue that course. i don't see that evidence. it begins with the threat and i don't believe for a second that even isis poses an existential threat to the united states of america. i think the threat is relatively modest and the respons responsee d
. >> here's the cover of the book america's war for the greater middle east as we listen to jim in erie pennsylvania. >> thank you for taking my question.. he stayed the quandary in terms of what we are looking at. how do we disengage from the openly hostile islamic culture that seems to be intent on murdering as many people as possible and cares nothing about human rights and inspires terrorists all over the world to murder innocent people and if disengagement sounds nice in this...
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fellow iowans will be remembering loved ones lost in the attack like those in newton whose husband jim loving and good-natured good humor of a man who'd never came home from his business trip to the world trade center 18 years ago now she has been on a crusade to keep his memory alive and well for the last two decades raising funds for newton's own very own 9/11 memorial and educate students about the event of that day 18 years ago. she has given her testimony all over iowa they probably seen her driving across the state she has a pretty special license plate which reads and ver f gt never forget. today and every day iowans keep that sacred promise we will always remember of the 3000 others who lost their lives that tragic day. we will always honor the heroes s who sacrificed and saved countless lives. we will always rise up to defend our nation and its citizens. we will never forget. that is our sacred promise. thank you mister president. i yield the floor. >> the senator from montana. americans witnessed what evil looks like. eighteen years ago today to witness the loss of innocent l
fellow iowans will be remembering loved ones lost in the attack like those in newton whose husband jim loving and good-natured good humor of a man who'd never came home from his business trip to the world trade center 18 years ago now she has been on a crusade to keep his memory alive and well for the last two decades raising funds for newton's own very own 9/11 memorial and educate students about the event of that day 18 years ago. she has given her testimony all over iowa they probably seen...
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jim matus i think was able to buyback readiness. from what i understand, about two thirds of the army's brigade teams are fully ready. the secretary can speak for his service and he has valued that but it was in very bad condition a few years ago. the marines are moving ahead with the transformation. i'm concerned about readiness. we don't have the navy here but certainly the outward sides are not good with what we are seeing in terms of the accident. i am concerned about the reputation it projects and what may come, a near -- maritime theater. we have to continue working on readiness and we can't recover from losing 500 -- $500 billion to the budget projected over the course of about six to seven years without having enormous knock on effects. >> i want to talk about the navy but before, how does the budget dysfunction affect your planning cycle? how do you think about that? >> it makes it difficult for us to pivot to the priorities secretary kendall and the chairman have talked about. three of them i would point to is one would be
jim matus i think was able to buyback readiness. from what i understand, about two thirds of the army's brigade teams are fully ready. the secretary can speak for his service and he has valued that but it was in very bad condition a few years ago. the marines are moving ahead with the transformation. i'm concerned about readiness. we don't have the navy here but certainly the outward sides are not good with what we are seeing in terms of the accident. i am concerned about the reputation it...